The death rate from cancer in the U.S. dropped 2.4% from 2017 to 2018, the biggest single-year decline on record and a sign of the impact of new treatments on lung cancer especially, the American Cancer Society said.

A look into Altum's major accomplishments in 2020.

Congress passed a federal funding bill that included $80 million specially set aside for childhood cancer research programs.

Through a series of rapid TED-style talks, this virtual event will explore the challenges, trends, and best practices that are shaping the research ecosystem in 2021.

Altum has been named a 2020 NVTC Honoree. The annual awards celebrate the most innovative technology companies and top tech executives in the region.

The Health Research Alliance (HRA) and the Public Library of Science (PLOS) have launched the Reimagine Biomedical Research for a Healthier Future Essay Challenge. The competition is hosted on ProposalCentral.

At Altum, we believe that research is most effective when it’s powered by a community. We share an ambitious vision and an open mindset, and our organization and platform are designed to foster true collaboration and partnerships. 

GivingTuesday is a global generosity movement, unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and their world.  

Altum has joined Crossref as a sponsoring partner, enabling funding organizations to connect their grants and grantees with published outputs and easily measure the reach and return of their grant making efforts.

Proposal Central helps you see what’s out there, understand your impact and empower your efforts, wherever they happen to be. In short, we help you fund better. 

The Lupus Research Alliance has announced the 2020 Lupus Innovation Award recipients. These seven recipients are tackling projects that represent a wide breadth of scientific exploration of the disease.

To intelligently scale its grant-making efforts, The ALS Association selected Altum’s ProposalCentral for its ease-of-use and comprehensive capabilities. 

The ORCID connection inside ProposalCentral enables funders to gain visibility into research outcomes and to provide clear reporting to donors and boards. The goal is perfect transparency into funding impact and to empower grant makers to answer a common question, “What did researchers accomplish after our grant?”

On November 6, the Food and Drug Administration is convening a meeting of outside experts to review the data from two Phase 3 clinical trials of a new drug developed for treating cognitive and functional decline in early Alzheimer’s disease

Implementing an online, digital grants management solution was the logical next step to improve the grants process and the overall experience for applicants and reviewers. 

Altum’s flagship grants management platform helps organizations unlock the full potential of their funding efforts and deliver outcomes that benefit humanity faster.

Altum, Inc., a leading SaaS platform for research grants management, today announced that Kevin Fliess has joined the company as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO).

The Lupus Research Alliance, a Proposal Central customer, recently published findings that support further development by several companies of potential new lupus treatments.

Altum is looking forward to the new partnership with National Information Standards Organization (NISO).

An exciting and promising breakthrough for the treatment of ALS is now in clinical trials. The ALS Foundation and I AM ALS have petitioned the FDA to make the treatment available as soon as possible.

Altum unveiled a new and important initiative for the research community called Open.  Open is a mindset and a belief that to truly create change, we must break down the walls and silos that have hindered innovation for centuries. Altum’s research management platform, ProposalCentral, and the power of the research analytics contained therein, is a true game changer for research organizations.

This is it! For months, you’ve contributed your time and energy, donated, raised money and maybe even shaved your head. And today that all culminates in the largest set of grants St. Baldrick’s makes all year.

We are at a pivotal point in world history and now is the time to act. Altum is incensed and heartbroken at the repeated killings of people of color and other minority groups due to systemic racism. Altum condemns the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks, Ahmaud Arbery, Elijah McClain, and the countless others who have died, and continue to die, because of racism and police brutality. We fully support the Black Lives Matter movement.

Altum is pleased to announce that ProposalCentral has been recognized by ORCID as the first certified funder platform. This is the culmination of years of investment and partnership among Altum, ORCID, and the research funders using ProposalCentral.

Steve was nominated for participation in the program by the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation, New York, NY. As a consumer reviewer, he was a full voting member, (along with prominent scientists) at meetings to help determine how the $ 300.000 million appropriated by Congress for Fiscal Year 2017 will be spent on PRMRP research covering 48 topic areas.

Altum committed today to helping fund the Research Organization Registry – a community-led project to develop an open, sustainable, usable, and unique identifier for every research organization in the world. Maria Gould, product manager at California Digital Library and ROR project said, “ROR is grateful for the support received from Altum, which will enable us to further develop and sustain the registry in line with community needs.”

OniX – Online Ideas Exchange Hub and Altum are partnering to support grants, prizes and challenges logistics from concept, through pre-, review and post management to advance research.

Last month I had the privilege of attending the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) conference at the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen. It was my first time attending an OASPA conference and I wanted to share some highlights. As the leader of a company that focuses on research and operates a grants management platform for research funders, I’m interested in the amount of change happening in scholarly publishing and how it impacts our customers.

If you are considering a new grants management system and your organization funds research, understand that there are significant differences between generic platforms and platforms that focus on research.

Users of Altum’s grants management system, ProposalCentral, can now benefit from Enago’s specialist editing services for grant proposals.